Liú Yīn 劉因 (1249–1293)
Zì Mèngjí 夢吉, hào Jìngxiū 靜脩 (the Jìngxiū xiānshēng 靜脩先生 of the Yuánshǐ Rúlín zhuàn). Native of Róngchéng 容城 (modern Héběi Róngchéngxiàn, just southwest of Bao-ding 保定). Yuan-period Cheng-Zhu Lǐxué scholar — together with Xǔ Héng 許衡 (1209–81), one of the two pillars of early-Yuán Neo-Confucianism.
In Zhìyuán 19 (1282) Khubilai Khan summoned him to court as Chéngdé láng 承徳郎 兼 Yòuzànshàn dàifū 右贊善大夫; he served briefly, then resigned and returned home. He was again summoned as Jíxián xuéshì 集賢學士 but did not respond. His career — the only Yuán Confucian of his stature to systematically refuse Mongol office — gave him an ambivalent place in the Yuán Lǐxué canon: respected for his learning, but somewhat off-stage in political-institutional terms.
Surviving works in Kanripo:
- KR1h0031 Sìshū jíyì jīngyào 四書集義精要 (28 juàn, WYG, incomplete) — a careful pruning of the post-Zhū-Xī Sìshū jíyì corpus, removing redundant material and selecting the substantive readings.
Liú Yīn’s collected works are the Jìngxiū xiānshēng wénjí 靜脩先生文集 (KR4d corpus). He was the elder of Sū Tiānjué 蘇天爵 (the Yuán wénlèi 元文類 compiler), who praised this Sìshū jíyì jīngyào as “jiǎnyán jīngdāng 簡嚴精當” (concise-strict, precise-and-apposite) — the verdict echoed by the Sìkù tíyào at KR1h0031.
(CBDB id 29001; dates 1249–1293 firm from Yuánshǐ 171.)